Speaking at the Ceremonial Bench held to celebrate the closure of the Diamond Jubilee Year of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Tuesday (January 28, 2025) said the three challenges before the court are the “weight of arrears which continue to delay justice, mounting cost of litigation which threatens accessibility, and the most fundamental of them all, ‘justice cannot thrive where and when falsehood is practised’”.
However, the CJI said no other court in the world navigates such an expansive domain, personal liberty to environmental issues, from intellectual property rights to privacy to right to information.
“Seventy-five years after our constitutional journey began, the Supreme Court stands transformed yet is anchored in its foundations. This transformation shows that justice must be principled and practical. In doing so, it makes the constitutional promise of justice, socio, economic and political equality a reality for millions of Indians,” the CJI said.
The Ceremonial Bench comprised all the serving judges of the Supreme Court. It was held in the Chief Justice of India’s courtroom. Senior Bar leaders, including Attorney General R. Venkataramani, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Supreme Court Bar Association president and senior advocate Kapil Sibal, senior advocates C. Vaidyanathan and Dushyant Dave and Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association president advocate Vipin Nair were in attendance among others in the packed courtroom.
